Here are some selected YouTube clips which feature scenes from Distant Voices/Still Lives useful for anyone using it as the tutor text in the first assignment.
Here is a section from the film's opening moments: Maisie and Tony's memories of their father's violence that are called up by Eileen's wish that he could be present at her wedding:
Here's a longer version with the film's opening image and sound (the outside of the family home/the morning weather report on the radio)and the long shot of the staircase that resolves into the framing device of the father's funeral layered with Eileen's wedding:
This is the scene that begins with Maisie as a child watching her mother washing windows ("don't fall mum, please don't fall") then layers a conversation between the older Maisie and her mother ("Why did you marry 'im?" "He was nice. He was a good dancer") with the scene of the father's brutality (both "covered" by the song "Taking a Chance on Love"):
From the second half of the film, the scene with Jingles and Les at the pub gathering to celebrate Maisie's daughter's birth. This contains Monica's colourful line "They're all the same, when they aren't using the big stick, they're fartin'. Aren't men 'orrible?" This scene breaks off, however, and the credits are stuck on the end of the clip:
And finally, the scene of Maisie and Eileen crying while watching Love is a Many Splendored Thing which bleeds into the visually arresting scene of Tony and George's scaffolding accident:
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